Tapestry Training -- From The Source

Monday, August 03, 2015

My long-running Clojure project at Aviso is ramping down now and I'm on the hunt for a new engagement ... preferably in Clojure.

I'm really thankful to Aviso for giving me the opportunity to spin up my real-world Clojure (and ClojureScript!) skills over the last two and a half years. I'm definitely in a position now where using Clojure feels like "cheating", compared to working in other languages I know and use. I know I have to work much harder in Java to accomplish the same goals.

I'm interested in either a long term engagement, or a full time position; in either case, it should be in Portland, Oregon, or support remote work.

I'm also very interested in providing Clojure training; I had a little preview of this recently at Uberconf, where Neal Ford and I presented an Introduction to Clojure. I'll be using any upcoming downtime to create new Clojure training materials.

I'm also open to short-term "bootstrapping" engagements, to work with a small team interested in getting into the Clojure world. This could be a mix of training, mentoring, and prototyping.

Here's a few of our accomplishments, many of which have been open-sourced:

Created the pretty library, which improves Clojure's dreadful exception output. It has been downloaded 227K times to date, and is also incorporated into the Boot build tool.

Even with all the powerful developer features built into Tapestry, I feel even more productive in Clojure and ClojureScript. I'd like to share that with your team, in either a short-term or long-term relationship. Contact me!